Maverick is still airborne, low on gas, and needs to land but can't now because Cougar has fouled the landing area and has to be towed out of the wires. (12:51) Cougar traps, leaves lights on (Case I or Case III approach? Unclear here), and immediately shuts the jet down instead of taxiing out of the landing area. The Air Boss would have had Paddle's ass after that. He gets at least FIVE "power" calls and no "wave off" call. (12:27) There's no way Cougar wouldn't have been waved off based on that wild approach. (12:25) Cougar never calls the ball when instructed but gets a "roger, ball" from the LSO. (11:06) Maverick instantly bolters - in full burner, no less - with the hook down again. (It takes several seconds to cycle between fully up and fully down.) Then he pulls the throttles aft to go around, which would reduce engine power, as somebody screams "Cougar!" over the radio. (10:58) Maverick crosses the ramp with his hook down and then a second later he has the hook up. (10:57) Goose has the same non-existent rear cockpit fuel gauge as Merlin. (10:48) A ball call (the transmission indicating the pilot sees the Fresnel lens that gives him glide slope information for landing) would not include the pilot's call sign. (10:26) ICS comms (intra-cockpit chatter) can be heard in air ops. (7:21) Standby gyro is un-caged as Maverick "goes for missile lock" by twisting a nob on the mid-compression by-pass selector - a system that has nothing to do with the Tomcat's weapons suite.į-14 A Tomcat cockpit. (6:00) Tomcat's wings are swept fully aft, which means - at that altitude - that the aircraft is going supersonic or the pilot commanded them into that position, which he wouldn't do because the airplane doesn't turn that well in that configuration. That would be a huge radiation hazard, to put it mildly.) (Wouldn't want a radar that pointed back at the crews. Tomcat's radar only sweeps 65 degrees either side of the nose. (5:00) RIO's radar presentation shows a 360-degree PPI presentation. (4:56) Maverick and Goose are sweating in the cockpit, which they'd only do if the pilot had the environment control system (ECS) jacked up uncomfortably high and the RIO didn't bitch at him to turn it down. (4:45) GCI controller refers to crews by their callsigns: "Cougar and Merlin and Maverick and Goose." A controller would refer to jets by aircraft side numbers.
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